Dissection

(July 7th open to Angel, Lilo, Jumba and Stitch. This is to figure out what's wrong with the experiments)

"EH! EH! EH!"

Stitch pushed and prodded against the side of the glass container as he sat there in Jumba's tent. He'd been there 7 days and Junba still kept him locked up for precautionary reasons. Alien's eyes narrowed, green eyes glowing softly. He hadn't returned to himself in days.

Blood drawn, tests preformed, it seemed Jumba would never get anywhere to figuring out what was wrong with 626. 626. He snarled and hissed, crawling on all fours around the small container. He spat at the thing, licked the glass, clawed at it and moaned.

The little monster was back and there was no stopping him. Except for this container.

Tentatively, Angel poked her head into the tent and looked Stitch's way. She still had no clue what was happening to him, or any of the other Experiments for that matter, but it worried her. Angel also couldn't understand why she was seemingly unaffected by whatever was happening. Was it simply because she had been programed to turn Experiments good or evil with a simple song? Was it because she wasn't quite as naughty as the other Experiments? Angel didn't pretend to know. All she wanted to do was find out what was happening. That was why she had crept inside the tent with Jumba's computer tucked under her arm. One way or another, Angel was going to try and figure out what was wrong with Stitch.

The sight of Stitch snarling and generally acting crazy did frighten Angel. There was no denying that much. His green eyes weren't making things any more comforting to the little pink-furred girl. Her resolve didn't waver any, though. She settled herself near where Stitch was being contained and opened up Jumba's computer. Delicate fingers danced across the keyboard and Angel began to pull up what information she could on 626. As she looked, she found herself becoming a bit more frustrated. It was all the same things she had seen before. No new information was found as far as she could see. Angel's ears drooped and she closed the computer with a huff. Why was this so frustrating?

Maybe Jumba's come up with something by now. she thought. Maybe so. The only way to find out, though, was to wait for Jumba to arrive so that she could ask.

Lilo was seen walking through the camp. It still had been some time since she had seen Stitch last, but yet, she had no clue as to what had actually happened lately, unaware that Stitch had returned to his old self again.

Though the little Hawaiian girl did notice not far, that Angel was standing at the entrance to one of the tents, her head poking inside. She in turn decided to approach and find out what was going on, but before she went to speak up, she heard that one particular noise "Stitch?" she started, glancing to Angel for a moment before she too poked her head inside.

There she saw him, trapped in the containment unit, but something was wrong with him. As she watched him for just a few seconds more, she noticed his green eyes and gasped lightly. It was indeed, happening all over again with Stitch, that same destructive behaviour she had tried so hard to get rid of in the first place.

She just stood there, looking at him, unsure at the moment as to what to even say, or do for that matter. Her eyes did glance over to Angel once again, as if to see if she had any idea as to what was going on with Stitch, but with the way she had huffed, it seemed as though she was in the same boat as Lilo was.

Angel, in turn, looked up from the closed computer and over to Lilo after a moment. Her ears drooped a bit and she began to fiddle uncomfortably with one of her antennae as though she were trying to figure out what she could even say. Something was wrong with Stitch and she had no idea what it was. How could she even try to describe it to Lilo? "Stitch... acting weird. Naga know why. Others naughty, too." Angel tried to explain. However, she felt her words didn't quite convey what she was trying to say simply because they were broken and unclear. Even though she had shut the computer just moments before, she felt the need to open it up again so that she could show Lilo which other Experiments had been behaving strangely.

One by one, the files began to appear onscreen. Melty, Yaarp, Elastico (he was there when she had been looking for Stitch, so it went without saying that she thought something might be wrong with him), Kixx, and, much to Angel's surprise, 627. The last of the five she had pulled up surprised her because she hadn't thought Jumba would have anything about 627 on the computer. Perhaps it had been updated since the last time she had checked it. "Cousins being evil, but Angel naga sing song. Naga make them evil." Angel said. She'd even tried singing her reverse song to make them good again, but it hadn't done any good. Of course it wouldn't have done any good for 627 since he had been made after her, but it had been worth a shot.

"Blarg!" Stitch was furiously licking the inside of the glass in his pod, rubbing his nose in it and then rubbing his rear in it. He then grabbed his feet, placed them in his mouth and rolled around the container, despite being really tiny. Something was indeed wrong with 626. He let go of his feet and roared at Lilo and 624. Ears flicking back the alien experiment, scratched at the container.

"Let 626 OUT!" He moaned, "Me be good! Promise!" Eyes still aglow he grinned and giggled furiously. He barely recognized Lilo.

WHERE was 624? And Little Girl? Did they not know he'd been waiting for the past hour or so for them to come into his lab? Where they not aware he had one here? Certainly they knew of his makeshift dome lab, it was a large monstrosity right beside Pride Rock!! Grumbling to himself, running meaty hands over the three remaining strands of hair on his head, Jumba lumbered through the camp, looking for his renegade companions.

He almost passed by his tent, but paused when he heard voices inside it. Familiar voices. Hastily he stuck his head into the tent. "WHAT are you all doing in here?! Should be in lab!! Jumba has been running tests non-stop, and think I have found solution to our problems!"


(ooc: I guess it's not widely known, but I've established Jumba to have created his own lab. It's a dome-roofed metal structure next to Pride Rock. He really spends all of his time there, so he wouldn't really need a tent ^^; but we could say for the sake of this thread he goes there sometimes to sleep.)

Lilo looked over at the computer for a few moments, eyes going wide slightly at what she had seen. Her eyes then gazed back towards Stitch as he then spoke up as well, promising that he would be good. At first, it was as if Lilo was going to believed Stitch as she approached the glass container, only to place a hand upon it, as if to, in a sense, ignore Stitch for now. Something was indeed, wrong with him and the way he spoke, the way he was acting. He still wasn't the same Stitch she had adopted back in Hawaii.

"We....we have to find out what's going on with Stitch and his cousins" Lilo finally spoke up again, just as Jumba entered the tent as well. Her gaze looked over to Jumba as she removed her hand from the glass container "I was trying to find Stitch, I hadn't seen him in a while and I guess I know why now...." she sighed just a little.

"Ih! We try to find what wrong." Angel said, agreeing with Lilo, while nodding to show her confirmation of what had been said. She knew they probably should have gone to Jumba's makeshift lab, but Stitch had been kept in the tent. That was what made Angel come in there looking for him. That was why she hadn't gone looking for Jumba immediately. Stitch's, or 626's, words reached her and she finally looked his way. Oh, how she wished she could believe him. Angel wanted to believe that he would be good, but with how he was acting... well, it was just difficult to believe. She brought her paw back to her cheek, the one that bore the healing cuts from just a few days before, and shook her head just a little. She couldn't let Stitch out. No matter how much he begged, Angel just couldn't risk letting him wreak havoc in his condition.

"Naga, boojiboo. Naga can let out." Angel told him. She hoped he would understand. It was for his own good that they were keeping him contained. If they let him out, then who knew what kinds of trouble he would cause? Left shoes would be in danger. That was the best scenario Angel could imagine. The worst case scenario involved him somehow getting to a city and destroying every bit of it.

Angel's attention shifted back to Jumba and her brow creased a bit. Surely he had thought of some reason the Experiments they had seen were behaving strangely by then. He had to have some kind of explanation. "Jumba know? Why cousins acting naughty?" Angel asked.

"While am not certain, appears to be excessive electrons running rampant in atmosphere. Is no issue for human beings and native Earth creatures 624, but for creatures not of this world...oh ho!! Is devastating." Jumba had lumbered forward as he spoke, carefully picking up 626's containment pod in his arms and holding it out at arm's length as he walked out of the tent.

Assuming that his little pink trog and Lilo had followed, Jumba continued. "Excessive electricity in atmosphere appears to be short-circuiting nervous system. When system short-circuits, brain receives shock, and is like a short-lived behavioral modification trigger. Sort of like your song 624 but not permanent. When shocks again, brain reverts to normal. Then shocks again and is back to evil." Unfortunately, knowing the cause gave him no ease at finding a solution. Grim alien's expression was grim. He didn't want to admit it but he was utterly at a loss.

(ooc: Sorry about posting as my Kovu account ^^; but for some reason I can't log in as Jumba.. sorry for waiting so long to continue this guys.)

"PUT 626 DOWN!"

Stitch slammed against the container's egdes , not escaping because that was impossible but probably making it difficult for Jumba to hold him in place. He snarled, drool dripping from his maw. He licked the containment pod, going around and around until the whole thing was covered in drool. He stuck his nose in the spittle. Sitting on the ground, eyes flashing in and out from green to black, he tapped his nose in a thoughtful manner making himself look rather adorable. But he was beyond naughty at this point and probably would have killed to get his way out of the containment pod.

"Pooama Chicky!!" Insulting Jumba's mother once more was the best he could do at this point. He crossed his arms and growled, unable to think of what to do. How could he get out without hurting himself. He didn't care about hurting Jumba or Angel or even Lilo at this point who Stitch finally saw. He waved to her and gave her the biggest saddest eyes he could.

"Help Stitch?" He said softly, whimpering, but his eyes still glowing that bright green color.

(nice explanation there Kovu, well done ^^)

Lilo followed Jumba out of the tent, eyes gazing to Stitch for a moment, then back to Jumba again as she listened to the explanation he was giving. She gave it, just a little bit of thought, but probabally not long enough for an actual plan, just one single idea that popped in her mind "So then, we just have to zap him again with some electrity? Like lightning? And he'll return to normal once again?" she had to ask for starters, though, as she asked that, something else entered her mind as well.

"But then, if we zap him with some electricity....like lightning....and then he gets zapped again? Doesn't that mean he'll turn evil....again?" Lilo added in, already starting to get a little lost on how they could fix Stitch properly, along with the rest of the experiments.

"Mmrph!!" Jumba grunted, nearly dropping Stitch's containment pod but catching it again in the nick of time. "626!! Could be doing without the insults!!" As far as the insults themselves actually went, Jumba wasn't too phased. It was a petty reaction born as a result of 626's inability to escape. The fact that he was talking about his mother well.....Jumba chose to ignore.

His expression remained grim, until he heard Lilo's question. Alien's eyes widened in realization. "That's IT!!!" He cried suddenly. He would have seized Lilo about the shoulders if he hadn't still been holding Stitch. "Large enough shock might reverse the effect!! Of course is only in theory right now, we need to experiment."

Finally, Jumba reached the door of his makeshift lab. He pressed his palm to a pad on the door and waited a second. A mechanical voice rang out: "DNA samples match. Welcome Dr. Jumba Jookiba." And a large panel opened on the side of the dome, large enough for Jumba, Angel, Lilo and Stitch in his pod to move through with ease. Once inside, Jumba set Stitch's pod on a pedestal and began rummaging about, preparing the machine for said experiment. "626, be proud. You are test subject. We will see if this works or not."